Alvin W Vogtle nuclear power plant

Alvin W Vogtle nuclear power plant in context

By gross operating capacity Alvin W Vogtle nuclear power plant is the 1st largest of 54 operating nuclear sites in the United States, holding 5% of the country's operating capacity, and ranks 13th of 172 worldwide.

Its operating units started up between 1987 and 2024; the median unit is 20.0 years old, younger than the median of 45.0 in the United States.

The 4 units with both construction and grid dates on record took 10.1 to 12.7 years (median 10.5) from construction start to grid connection; the median across all reactors connected in the 2020s is 7.7 years.

The nearest other tracked nuclear sites are Virgil C Summer nuclear power plant (137 km), Edwin I Hatch nuclear power plant (143 km) and H. B. Robinson nuclear power plant (206 km).

2 operating units are rated differently now from their design net capacities: Unit 1 +2.5% and Unit 2 +4.6%.

Build time by unit

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How these are worked out: ranks use gross operating capacity; ages count from the start-up year on record, as on the age page; build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the build-times page; ratings are the tracker's net and design net capacity, as on the uprates page. Distances are straight-line between exact positions, so a site with only an approximate position gets none. A unit missing a date or a rating is left out of the figure that needs it.